twoshoes

@twoshoes@lemmy.world
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Plot Twist: Muscle Mommys become a trend

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The unborn are a convenient group to advocate for

That's obviously all due to the hard work and visionary leadership of upper management

I've always had bad grades, so for that one test my mom studied very hard with me. After grades were given back, my teacher came up to me and literally said that the performance was worthy of a 2 (B) but she's given me a 4 (D) again, to motivate me.

Needless to say, motivation was not achieved.

Furthermore, it's one of the core experiences that led me to mentally check out of the school system eventually and still fuels my distrust of authorities and institutions to this day, almost 20 years later. Well done Frau Bauer.

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This just in: A Florida man says not hitting himself in the face helped him end his chronic jaw pain. More at eight.

It's kinda the prerequisite to getting into online dating

The German equivalent is "Not all cups in the cupboard"

I've used flatpak for a while because it's the default ob Fedoras GUI Software Center, but I've recently switched back to dnf and native packages where I can.

The thing is, that I have a shitty 500GB SSD with a shitty 50Mbit Internet connection (which is closer to 30Mbit because my house still has lead cables instead of copper). So downloading 300+ MB of libraries for a 2MB Program is just not feasible for me.

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*stop going above and beyond before the profits start to trickle down

It's also enabled by default.

Edit: Apparently it's not enabled by default. I tried brave some time ago and remembered that it was enabled, which promoted me to uninstall it immediately. Maybe it was enabled by default then, maybe I misremembered.

Having a VPN basically just means sending your traffic (albeit encrypted) to someone else's server, before sending it to the wider internet.

That means if you don't specifically disable it, everything you do in the brave browser could theoretically be logged, processed and analyzed by the owners of brave.

Even if the traffic itself is still encrypted, like with online banking, just knowing how many people in a certain city use which bank for example, could be very interesting to advertisers.

Depending on how evil they are, they could also log extensive amounts of user data, just waiting for the day it becomes legal to sift through it (just like a lot of governments do).

Or maybe they just log and sell your data even though it's illegal. Like a lot of companies do all the time (see Cambridge Analytical scandal etc.).

Or maybe they don't. But if I was a browser company I'd sure enjoy having all my users route all their traffic through servers I control.

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My GF and I are generally not that into shopping, but if we do I enjoy it. I like to suggest clothes for her, though she usually goes for safer options than what I suggest. We are somewhat similar types, so it's mostly what I would wear if I was a woman.

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I don't want to be too "we live in a society" but I noticed that - since I'm a man / was a boy - people in care giving roles usually assumed I want to prove myself. Because All Boys™ want to prove themselves all of the time. So it's good to be as adversarial as possible, actually. To grow their character.

Regarding her generation and type of character, I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that she thought she was actually doing me a favor. Also she co-taught our class with another teacher who quite openly disliked boys in general and me in particular. Which was probably also a factor.

Can't post image replys, so I'll just post a link:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/386/534/fd2.jpg

I'm really interested. I've never gotten into the way KDE does things, so I've always stuck to gnome, but I'm always happy to see development and diversity in FOS Software. I'll definitely check out some videos about it

Roomcomarades

Yes, of course. But afaik the idea of flatpak is, that every program has a list of libraries and versions of them that it wants. So when program X was built with libfoo version 1 and program Y needs libfoo version 2, you basically download the library twice.

When you go through the package manager, you just download the current version that's in the repository. This can lead to problems when a program expects some functionality that has since been deprecated, but I never actually had issues with that.

Also, a lot of the libraries a flatpak downloads are already installed on the system, just in a different version, I noticed.

I'm on a home computer that I use by myself, mind you. So if something breaks, it's just my own problem. If I were to use software in production or even just administer the computer of a tech-unsavy relative, I'd likely use flatpaks or similar for stability and security reasons.

I agree that the more accurate term is "board-proof" but I still think "CEO-proof" conveys the idea better to someone who is unaware of the way social media corpos work. The image of the shady CEO with his pinstripe suite and greased hair, lighting his big cigar with a wad of dollar bills is so strong in the cultural conciousness, that even my inlaws would switch to a federated plattform.

I do have lag issues with YouTube on FF as well, but only the video not the audio. I just assumed it was a codec issue, or just RAM management, since it only occurs when I've been running FF plus a game like wow all day

Alright, thanks for the correction.

I'm using chrome on phone, because it's basically part of the operating system, but I did like Fennec. It's a fork of Firefox mobile with a few more privacy features (or so they advertise)

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I just want to add that as a European citizen you also have a right to get a copy of all your data, and an explanation how and when this data has been used.

Also, I'm pretty sure that their response "you first have to delete your comments manually" does not comply with EU guidelines.

My Mother is the first type, my Fiancee is the second. "Cobbler, stick to your last" as we say in Germany. Though I'm much better with asking questions than telling someone to get to the point.

You are correct. It is illegal.

I thought about that for a while, but I think it's not that. At least not entirely. Probably some kind of non conforming fluidity kind of deal

Well to be fair, if she and others hadn't shown me how ridiculous this kind of hierarchical thinking is, I wouldn't have been angry enough to quit all the jobs and relationships I didn't feel appreciated at. So I kinda wouldn't be who I am without it. But I still wish I didn't have to be who I am to get by.

The problem is, that the law is not absolute. Neither in it's writing nor it's application.

Large companies regularly break the law (especially data protection) and face very little consequences. Either because they can afford a staff of lawyers to find and build loopholes, or through schmoozing with the right desicion makers. Paying a fine of 20 million is not much when you made 20 billion (20 thousand million) in profit.

Even more so, very large companies (think Facebook or Google) hold enough political power to influence or even change laws.

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